Hierarchy of equations for the surface tension of solids

Of the four main equations in thermodynamics for the surface tension of condensed matter, i.e. the generalized and classical Lippmann equations and the Shuttleworth and Gokhshtein equations, only the classical Lippmann and Gokhshtein equations have been confirmed experimentally. The generalized Lippmann (Couchman–Davidson) equation is considered to be more universal, since three other equations could be derived from it. Although this fact has been widely accepted, it was recently reevaluated in two opposite ways. In the first approach, the experimental verification of the Gokhshtein equation should support the correctness of the generalized Lippmann and Shuttleworth equations. In the second approach, the incompatibility of the Shuttleworth equation with Hermann's mathematical structure of thermodynamics throws doubts upon all its corollaries, including the generalized Lippmann and Gokhshtein equations. However, both of these approaches are here shown to be erroneous, since the Gokhshtein equation cannot be correctly derived from any of the above-mentioned equations, and the opposite is also true: neither the generalized Lippmann nor Shuttleworth equations could be derived from the Gokhshtein equation.     

High-order quadratures for the solution of scattering problems in two dimensions

We construct an iterative algorithm for the solution of forward scattering problems in two dimensions. The scheme is based on the combination of high-order quadrature formulae, fast application of integral operators in Lippmann–Schwinger equations, and the stabilized bi-conjugate gradient method (BI-CGSTAB). While the FFT-based fast application of integral operators and the BI-CGSTAB for the solution of linear systems are fairly standard, a large part of this paper is devoted to constructing a class of high-order quadrature formulae applicable to a wide range of singular functions in two and three dimensions; these are used to obtain rapidly convergent discretizations of Lippmann–Schwinger equations. The performance of the algorithm is illustrated with several numerical examples.     

Structure-mechanical approach to surface tension of solids

Some problems of applying the Lippmann equation to adsorption studies on solid electrodes are shortly reviewed. A novel nonthermodynamic approach to consider the role of elastic and plastic deformation of electrode surfaces during adsorption is proposed. The extremely thin electrode surface layers affected electrically and mechanically by adsorbate are supposed to be free of dislocations because of volume discrepancy. The nearest structure-mechanical analogs of such layers are the whisker crystals whose side surface could have one- and two-dimensional defects, but have no active dislocations. Like whiskers, surface metal layers should possess a high ultimate strength close to the theoretical one and a purely elastic deformation. Affected only by adsorbate, the surface electrode layer should be considered as absolutely elastic body, whose plastic deformation is impossible, i.e. the Lippmann equation and other equations containing terms of plastic deformation cannot be used in thermodynamics of the solid metal surface.     

一维Lippmann-Schwinger方程及其应用

讨论了一维Lippmann-Schwinger方程及其在一维散射问题中的应用,并给出了对称害虫函数势的反射系数和透射系数。     

提高重铬酸盐明胶全息图环境稳定性的一种新方法

在明胶水悬浮液中加入少量聚乙烯醇及必要的添加剂,经重铬酸铵敏化后曝光制作Lippmann全息图.实验表明,与用传统方法制作的重铬酸盐明胶全息图相比,其环境稳定性有了明显的提高,本文还讨论了聚乙烯醇等物质的加入所起的作用及这种全息图环境稳定性提高的机理.     

The Exact Three-Dimensional Half-Shell t-Matrix for a Sharply Cut-off Coulomb Potential in the Screening Limit

The screening limit of the three-dimensional half-shell t-matrix for a sharply cut-off Coulomb potential is analytically derived without reference to partial wave expansion. The numerical solutions of the three-dimensional Lippmann–Schwinger equation for increasing cut-off radii provide half-shell t-matrices which are in quite a good agreement with the asymptotic values.     

Three-Dimensional Low-Momentum Interaction in Two-Body Bound State Calculations

The deuteron binding energy and wave function are calculated by using the recently developed three-dimensional form of low-momentum nucleon–nucleon (NN) interaction. The homogeneous Lippmann–Schwinger equation is solved in momentum space by using the low-momentum two-body interaction, which is constructed from Malfliet–Tjon potential. The results for both, deuteron binding energy and wave function, obtained with low-momentum interaction, are compared with the corresponding results obtained with bare potential.     

重铬酸盐明胶反射全息图的波长调节新技术研究

介绍了一种采用有机预膨胀剂调节李普曼反射全息图再现波长的新方法. 将水溶性的有机试剂丙稀酰胺作为预膨胀剂均匀加入亚甲基蓝敏化的重铬酸盐明胶（MBDCG）溶液中来制作全息干板,预膨胀剂在反射全息图的后处理阶段溶于水,明胶层发生均匀收缩,从而使再现波长向短波方向移动. 通过控制丙稀酰胺浓度,可在整个可见光区大范围定量控制再现波长.     

Charm Hadrons in Dense Matter

The properties of the D and D _s charmed mesons in normal nuclear matter density are studied within a coupled channel approach using a t-channel vector-meson exchange mechanism as driving force. The in-medium scattering amplitudes are obtained by solving the Lippmann?CSchwinger equation including Pauli blocking effects and medium self-energies in a self-consistent way.     

Helmholtz equation in periodic media with a line defect

We consider the Helmholtz equation in an unbounded periodic media perturbed by an unbounded defect whose structure is compatible with the periodicity of the underlying media. We exhibit a method coupling Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps with the Lippmann–Schwinger equation approach to solve this problem, where the Floquet–Bloch transform in the direction of the defect plays a central role. We establish full convergence estimates that makes the link between the rate of decay of a function and the good behavior of a quadrature rule to approximate the inverse Floquet–Bloch transform. Finally we exhibit a few numerical results to illustrate the efficiency of the method.     

Vague concept of “reversible cleavage” in the theory of the surface tension of solids

Numerous derivations of the well-known Shuttleworth equation have been based on the unclear concept of “reversible cleavage” leading to the decisive step in any derivation - equalization of the surface free energy and surface stress. This is the key concept in contemporary surface thermodynamics of solids. But “cleavage” is not a surface process and, in this field, it cannot be a reversible operation. Besides, the “reversible cleavage” has no formal definition in the domain of the surface tension of solids that is an abnormal for any exact science. Consequently, this concept and all its corollaries including the Shuttleworth and generalized Lippmann equations have to be recognized as incorrect.     

Two-Nucleon Scattering Without Partial Waves Using a Momentum Space Argonne V18 Interaction

We test the operator form of the Fourier transform of the Argonne V18 potential by computing selected scattering observables and all Wolfenstein parameters for a variety of energies. These are compared to the GW-DAC database and to partial wave calculations. We represent the interaction and transition operators as expansions in a spin-momentum basis. In this representation the Lippmann–Schwinger equation becomes a six channel integral equation in two variables. Our calculations use different numbers of spin-momentum basis elements to represent the on- and off-shell transition operators. This is because different numbers of independent spin-momentum basis elements are required to expand the on- and off-shell transition operators. The choice of on and off-shell spin-momentum basis elements is made so that the coefficients of the on-shell spin-momentum basis vectors are simply related to the corresponding off-shell coefficients.     

Renormalization Group Invariance in Pionless Effective Field Theory for the NN System

We consider the NN interaction in pionless effective field theory (EFT) up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) and use a recursive subtractive renormalization scheme to describe NN scattering in the ¹ S ₀ channel. We fix the strengths of the contact interactions at a reference scale, chosen to be the one that provides the best fit for the phase-shifts, and then slide the renormalization scale by evolving the driving terms of the subtracted Lippmann?CSchwinger equation through a non-relativistic Callan?CSymanzik equation. The results show that such a systematic renormalization scheme with multiple subtractions is fully renormalization group invariant.     

Scattering of an Acoustic Field by Refraction–Density Inhomogeneities with a Small Wave Size and Solution of the Problem of Direct Scattering in an Inhomogeneous Medium

The paper considers acoustic wave scattering by inhomogeneities with a small wave size using the Green’s function apparatus, which makes it possible universally to take into account both the refraction and density components of an inhomogeneity. Estimates for the multipole components of a field scattered by a nonresonance inhomogeneity are presented. For an inhomogeneity with small dimensions, it suffices to consider only monopole and dipole scattering. These conclusions are confirmed by an analysis of the field scattered by a circular cylinder with a small wave radius. The results are used to numerically simulate a Lippmann–Schwinger equation. The form of the discretized matrix Green’s function for identical values of the spatial arguments is presented. This makes it possible to take into account multiple scattering processes within a discretization element with a small wave size. Its use automatically fulfills the relations between the phase and amplitude of secondary acoustic field sources.     

时间相关的多道散射理论

本文把Lippmann-Schwinger等人关于散射理论的时间相关方案扩充到多道情况。Ekstein在1956年也曾试图进行这样的扩充工作。值得特别提到,他所指出并着重引用的事实,即多道情况下的射出(或射入)本征态组的广泛的正交性质,是极为重要的,这是建立散射矩阵概念的基础。但是,Ekstein没有充分利用Lippmann-Schwinger等人的方案所包含的相当普遍的出发点,原方案的简明性没有保留下来。而且由于无法用一个单独的相互作用表示来建立散射算符,就认为散射矩阵不能看作某种线性算符的表示,使散射矩阵的概念含混起来。本文保持原有Lippmann-Schwinger方案的基本精神及简明性而把它扩充为多道理论。给出了散射算符的明显形式。跃迁几率与散射矩阵的关系可以按照单道情形的方法来推导。 关键词：     

Two-dimensional models for an electrode with adsorption sites

Through a new method, the following model is solved exactly in the framework of classical equilibrium statistical mechanics of two-dimensional Coulomb systems, for the special value=2 of the coupling constant: the mobile charges of a one-component plasma are attracted by a line of equidistant sticky adsorption sites embedded in a background, the density of which varies in the direction orthogonal to the line. First the general expressions are given for the densities and correlation functions of nonadsorbed and adsorbed particles. Then these results are used to investigate two models of electrodes with localized adsorption: the externally charged hard wall and the impermeable polarized membrane. In each case the influence of the adsorption upon macroscopic features is studied: the potential drop across the interface, the contact theorem, and the Lippmann equation, which involves the surface free energy.     

Acoustic double-negative media

We consider the possibility of the existence of media in acoustics that are similar in several effects to the widely discussed electrodynamic left-handed media. The density and compressibility of a medium are shown to be the mechanical analogues of negative permittivity and permeability. We discuss the physical meaning of their negativity and mechanical models with such properties. To identify the effects related to the sign of the density and compressibility, we have performed our analysis based on linearized hydrodynamic equations instead of the wave equation or the Helmholtz equation. We have obtained an analogue of the Lippmann—Schwinger equation and constructed a theory of wave scattering by inhomogeneities in a medium with arbitrary values and signs of the density and compressibility. Our numerical simulations have revealed all of the expected effects. We consider the questions concerning the fulfillment of the causality principle and its consequences generalized to the case of negative media in the form of a connection between the damping and dispersion of waves.     

On the Renormalization of the One–Pion Exchange Potential and the Consistency of Weinberg’s Power Counting

Nogga, Timmermans and van Kolck recently argued that Weinberg’s power counting in the few–nucleon sector is inconsistent and requires modifications. Their argument is based on the observed cutoff dependence of the nucleon–nucleon scattering amplitude calculated by solving the Lippmann–Schwinger equation with the regularized one–pion exchange potential and the cutoff Λ varied in the range Λ = 2 . . . 20 fm^?1. In this paper we discuss the role the cutoff plays in the application of chiral effective field theory to the two–nucleon system and study carefully the cutoff–dependence of phase shifts and observables based on the one–pion exchange potential. We show that (i) there is no need to use the momentum–space cutoff larger than Λ ~ 3 fm^?1; (ii) the neutron–proton low–energy data show no evidence for an inconsistency of Weinberg’s power counting if one uses Λ ~ 3 fm^?1.     

A note on surface stress and surface tension and their interrelation via Shuttleworth’s equation and the Lippmann equation

Some aspects of the thermodynamics of solid surfaces, in particular with respect to the surface stress, f, and surface tension, γ, including the case of solid electrodes, are examined in view of their controversial discussion in part of the recent literature. By inspection of the phenomenology that requires a distinction between f and γ, and of a toy model designed to highlight the underlying fundamental science, it is shown that some of the recent publications give misleading conclusions. These include [V.A. Marichev, Surf. Sci. 600 (19) (2006) 4527; E.M. Gutman, J. Phys. Condens. Matter. 7 (48) (1995) L663; D.J. Bottomley, T. Ogino, Phys. Rev. B 63 (2001) 165412]. In spite of claims to the contrary, the validity of the equations of Shuttleworth, Lippmann, and Couchman and Davidson is not impaired by the arguments of the aforementioned articles.